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Need your thoguhts, albino or normal?

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Need your thoughts, albino or normal?

Please before you reply to this thread, read over it, and please only reply if you can explain in detail why you think it is an albino or normal.

Ok, I found this picture in the book "Keeping and Breeding Geckos" by Herman Seufer, copyright is 1991, published by TFH. The picture was taken by a photographer named Ken Lucas in the 1980's at the Steinhart Aquarium. Kelli was nice enough to scan this photo for me out of the book, which is found on pages 56-57 (thank you Kelli). The tail was left out in the scaned copy, to describe it, the coloration is darker and more defined in the contrast. Now remember that the albino morphs we are currently working with in the hobby did not appear until the mid-late 1990's. This pic was taken prior then that. Play close attention to the eyes. Kelli & myself first thought this was an example of a washed out pic, out of focus, and might even have a slight red cast to it, making a normal gecko appear albino. After playing around with the pic for hours in photoshop I am convinced it is a true t+ albino. It was labeled as an adult normal in the book. Not sure what Kelli thinks at this point and time, but she can express her thoughts here, as I encourage the rest of you to do as well.

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Justyn,

I'm torn but leaning towards albino. The eyes clearly have distinct red veins and appear much lighter and with a pink tone to them compared to what I'd expect to see in a normal. However the body appears to have the spotted adult patterning of a normal, you can even faintly see lavendar banding, all of which is atypical for the strains of albino we currently have..


The white balance in the picture is definately off, corrected it would probably look like the following:
 

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As for spotting, each albino strain seems to break up in varying degrees, with the Tremper an Bell breaking into spoting more, while the Rainwater seems to hold the banding better. Perhaps if this was a seperate strain, why could it not break up the banding into spots even more? The eyes I think make the case for an albino, but you enver know. I sent the pic to Tremper to get his idea on it. I have no idea if the Aqurium still has the gecko, where it came form, etc. I guess I could attempt to find out, but I doubt that search would be too fruitful.
 
well...

I'm voting on albino based on the eyes as well. If you can find out more info on this gecko, I can go over to Steinhart and check it out.
 
Heck, I doubt if the gecko is still alive, but maybe you can call and ask the zoo abou it? Appears to be a male. They had it sometime in the eighties. Not really to descriptive here, but I don't have much to go on. I wish we could prove it was albino, but I don't see how that is possible.
 
i dunno

i cant even see the eyes LMAO looks like a leo... the body does look t positive or hypo?

ok lern me here i am a student at yer beck and call... whats the difference betwenn t+ and hypomelanism? can they go hand in hand ? crap i dont know im tired
 
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